#spoilers review

[ideeylic]

I have seen it 3 times now

#this is my review btw if that wasn’t clear #doctor who #doctor who spoilers #dw spoilers #dw #doctor who the star beast #doctor who special #spencer.txt

[cinematicnomad]

obsessed with this letterboxd review for CHALLENGERS (2024) by rocky/WAYSTIAR

#challengers #challengers 2024 #i have linked to the reviewers specific review / letterboxd account / twitter for everyone's reference #go give them a like or follow on either platform #spoilers

[ecoamerica]

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[adhd-mode-activate]

Okay so I just saw the new Dungeons and Dragons movie

gotta say from the moment they went with the "let's dive out the window onto the Aarakocra" plan even as the council was like "WE PARDONED YOU" I knew it would be great because that is the exact kind of stupidity a D&D party would get up to

#dnd honor among thieves #dungeons and dragons honor among thieves #dnd movie #honestly my best overall review with minimal spoilers? #not quite gay enough but *definitely* neurodivergent enough #and my ace self was VERY HAPPY with the platonic found family

[brotherdusk]

hey. don't cry. matthew lillard with old springlock scars, ok?

#I can't believe I haven't seen any william girlies talking about this on here #I've been going insane since dawko covered it in his latest trailer review video #fnaf #matthew lillard #fnaf movie #five nights at freddy's #william afton #purple guy #steve raglan #springtrap #txt #fnaf movie spoilers #muted

[wileycap]

So, uh, Netflix Avatar, huh? Yeah. I guess I'll make a really long post about it because ATLA brainrot has is a cornerstone of my personality at this point.

So.

It's okay. B, maybe a C+.

That's it.

Now for the spoilers:

The biggest issue with the Netflix version is the pacing. Scenes come out of nowhere and many of the episodes are disjointed. Example: Aang escaping from Zuko's ship. We see him getting the key and going "aha!", and in the next scene he's in Zuko's room. And then he just runs out, no fun acrobatics or fights, and immediately they go to the Southern Air Temple where he sees Gyatso's corpse, goes into the Avatar state, and then sees Gyatso being really cheesy, comes out of it, and resolves that conflict. Nothing seems to lead into anything. The characters don't get to breathe.

The show's worst mistake (aside from Iroh fucking murdering Zhao) is its' first one: they start in the past. Instead of immediately introducing us to our main characters and dropping us into a world where we have a perfect dynamic where Aang doesn't know the current state of the world and Katara and Sokka don't know about the past, thus allowing for seamless and organic worldbuilding and exposition, they just... tell us. "Hey, this is what happened, ok, time for Aang!" There's no mystery, no intrigue, just a stream of information being shoved down the audience's throats and then onto the next set piece.

The visuals are for the most part great, but like with most Netflix productions, they just don't have great art direction. It feels like a video game cinematic, where everything is meant to be Maximum Cool - and none of the environments get to breathe. It's like they have tight indoor sets (with some great set design) and then they have a bunch of trailer shots. It's oozing with a kind of very superficial love.

Netflix still doesn't know how to do lighting, and with how disjointed the scenes are, the locations end up feeling like a parade of sets rather than actual cities or forests or temples. As for the costumes, Netflix still doesn't know how to do costumes that look like they're meant to be actually worn, so many of the characters seem weirdly uncomfortable, like they're afraid of creasing their pristine costumes.

The acting is decent to good, for the most part. I can't tell if the weaker moments come down to the actors or the direction and editing, but if I had to guess, I'd say the latter. Iroh and Katara are the weakest, Sokka is the most consistent, Zuko hits the mark most of the time, and Aang is okay. I liked Suki (though... she was weirdly horny? Like?) but Yue just fell kind of flat.

The tight fight choreography of the original is replaced with a bunch of spinny moves and Marvel fighting, though there are some moments of good choreography, like the Agni Kai between Ozai and Zuko (there's a million things I could say about how bad it was thematically, but this post is overly long already.) There's an actually hilarious moment in the first episode when Zuko is shooting down Aang, and he does jazz hands to charge up his attack.

Then there's the characters. Everybody feels very static - Zuko especially gets to have very little agency. A great example of that is the scene in which Iroh tells Lieutenant Jee the story of Zuko's scar.

In the original, it's a very intimate affair, and he doesn't lead the crew into any conclusions. Here, Iroh straight up tells the crew "you are the 41st, he saved your lives" and then the crew shows Zuko some love. A nice moment, but it feels unearned, when contrasted with the perfection of The Storm. In The Storm, Zuko's words and actions directly contradict each other, and Iroh's story gives the crew (and the audience) context as to why, which makes Zuko a compelling character. We get to piece it out along with them. Here - Iroh just flat out says it. He just says it, multiple times, to hammer in the point that hey, Zuko is Good Actually.

And then there's Iroh. You remember the kindly but powerful man who you can see gently nudging Zuko to his own conclusions? No, he's a pretty insecure dude who just tells Zuko that his daddy doesn't love him a lot and then he kills Zhao. Yeah. Iroh just plain kills Zhao dead. Why?

Iroh's characterization also makes Zuko come off as dumb - not just clueless and deluded, no, actually stupid. He constantly gets told that Iroh loves him and his dad doesn't, and he doesn't have any good answers for that, so he just... keeps on keeping on, I guess? This version of Zuko isn't conflicted and willfully ignorant like the OG, he's just... kind of stupid. He's not very compelling.

In the original, Zuko is well aware of Azula's status as the golden child. It motivates him - he twists it around to mean that he, through constant struggle, can become even stronger than her, than anyone. Here, Zhao tells him that "no, ur dad likes her better tee hee" and it's presented as some kind of a revelation. And then Iroh kills Zhao. I'm sorry I keep bringing that up, but it's just such an unforgiveable thematic fuckup that I have to. In the original, Zhao falls victim to his hubris, and Zuko gets to demonstrate his underlying compassion and nobility when he offers his hand to Zhao. Then we get some ambiguity in Zhao: does he refuse Zuko's hand because of his pride, or is it his final honorable action to not drag Zuko down with him? A mix of both? It's a great ending to his character. Here, he tries to backstab Zuko and then Iroh, who just sort of stood off to the side for five minutes, goes "oh well, it's murderin' time :)"

They mess with the worldbuilding in ways that didn't really need to be messed with. The Ice Moon "brings the spirit world and the mortal world closer together"? Give me a break. That's something you made up, as opposed to the millenia of cultural relevance that the Solstice has. That's bad, guys. You replaced something real with something you just hastily made up. There's a lot of that. We DID NOT need any backstory for Koh, for one. And Katara and Sokka certainly didn't need to be captured by Koh. I could go on and on, but again, this post is already way too long.

It's, um, very disappointing. A lot of telling and not very much showing, and I feel like all of the characters just... sort of end up in the same place they started out in. I feel like we don't see any of the characters grow: they're just told over and over again how they need to grow and what they need to do.

To sum it up: Netflix Avatar is a mile wide, but an inch deep.

#avatar the last airbender #atla #atla spoilers #avatar netflix #netflix avatar #atla live action #netflix atla #zuko #iroh #katara #aang #sokka #zhao #ozai #review

[moonflowergayy]

Good Omens (2019-) + Letterboxd reviews⭐

bonus:

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #goodomensedit #goedit #aziraphale #crowley #inneffable husbands #aziracrow #myedit #did i basically spend an afternoon just reading through letterboxd to find these reviews before they get taken down? #yes i did #gosh i love this show sm

[ecoamerica]

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[californiannostalgia]

the inexorable corruption of power and the question of: was it fate? or was it the individual choices of ten people, twenty--a thousand people's individual choices crushed into sediment over multiple centuries?

is that what we call fate? just stories.

beginnings are such delicate times.

#dune #dune part two #dune 2 #dune spoilers #dune part two spoilers #my thoughts #my reviews #paul atreides #chani #lady jessica #stilgar

[rebel-ezra]

pjo show next week how we feeling !!!

#personally i’m going insane #saw a spoiler free review of someone who was at the special screening and she was so excited and genuinely impressed #i can’t WAIT #pjo #pjotv #pjo show #percy jackson #percy jackson show

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

So I finally watched Puss in Boots 2....

#it was so great???? #like holy shit it caught me so off guard on how good this was #the animation alone was something to marvel at but i was taken aback on how enjoable this film was #i wasn't much of a fan of the first film and didn't pay this one any mind but i got intrigued by the positive reviews #for me it's up there with Shrek 2 on the list I'm not joking #puss in boots: the last wish #puss in boots the last wish spoilers #puss in boots spoilers #puss in boots #puss in boots 2

[sorbeau]

is this anything

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #kristen applebees #bobby dawn #fhjy spoilers #fhjy #in regerence to her insane comment on the teacher review

[mouse-bones]

Letterboxd reviews for Saw X

#saw shitpost #saw franchise #saw movies #saw x #saw x spoilers #saw x (2023) #amanda young #john kramer #jigsaw #saw 2004 #saw #letterboxd #reviews #funnyshit #what the fuvk #Bruh they brought back Amanda after years and made her look like fucking Spock

[primary-visions]

Here is the overview of reviews I’m seeing for the movie:

Critics who’ve never played a fnaf game: it sucks and the movie never should have been made.

Fans of fnaf: FUCK YEAH!!! THIS MOVIE WAS AMAZING!! HOLY SHITTT!!

It has a fucking 26% on rotten tomatoes 😭

#fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf movie reviews #spoiler free

[dalekinapaintedparadise]

#cyberpunk 2077 #phantom liberty #johnny silverhand #johnnysilverhandedit #cyberpunk2077edit #v #v cp2077 #excuse the quality #i'm not a gif maker #footage is from cdpr for spoiler free reviews on yt #but i love this little moment? #v doesn't know how to use an old phone #and johnny's fond teasing expression #is making me feel things #myedit #silerv #update from me #bc y'all are upsetting me #the character model looks great? #so much more fluid and detailed #what are you mad about

[hellmandraws]

Not gonna lie, I'm super excited about the upcoming One Piece live action series! It's out Aug 31 on Netflix. I actually think it's gonna be good! 🤞🤞🤞

#reminder that the strike has NOT called for a boycott from viewers! #we want to show that we want more of this show and that Netflix has to pay their writers properly if they want to keep profiting from it #don't forget: the continuation of a popular show is a bargaining chip for the writers #one piece #one piece live action #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #nami #usopp #sanji #when I first heard about the LA years ago I thought they were crazy #manga live actions are never good and OP is basically unfilmable #but when the strawhat cast was revealed I sat up straight and started paying attention #they were all spot on! absolutely unheard of in a live action! #and everything I've seen and heard about it since has just seemed so promising #early reviews are starting to come out and they're all positive #guys I think they did it #I think... Netflix actually made a good live action adaptation?? #and of OP of all thing?!?! #(I won't be able to watch it until Sunday though so I'm gonna have to stay off the internet completely to avoid spoilers! TAT)

[jeeaark]

You have no idea how much I really wanted a 'call Orin out on her bullshit' dialogue option

Wishful thinking this comic. I did not know about the initiate-combat-while-talking option until after this campaign, so I have no idea if there are actual consequences to kicking orin's ass mid-trickery or not

Bonus in Regards to Sleepy Gale:

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #....do I tag this as halsin or orin?????? #greygold #gale of waterdeep #jaheira #tw:violence #DID I MENTION IT WAS A LONG DAY THAT DAY???? #Its okay I let Gale take a break at camp after this ahaha #Look Stelmane's book collection was funny to me because I was having similar questions at that very conveniently same time #needed a quick illithid lore review and Stelmane didn't let me down

[insertdisc5]

what

#in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers #this is a what if. because it made me laugh #isat hit 1000 positive reviews thank you note extravaganza #sorry the quality is weird. i scanned this with my phone and edited it in a hurry